Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Ted Cruz Launch: Good News for Evangelicals,
Bad News for GOP Elites

Bryan Fischer

Commentary by Julio Severo:When there is no candidate for you to give your vote, it is sad. Yet,
when there is one, it is joy. Ted Cruz launched his candidacy to the U.S.
presidency in the largest evangelical university in the world, Liberty
University, connected to Matt Barber, owner of the conservative website
Barbwire, where I am a columnist. In fact, the article below, written by Bryan
Fischer, was published by Barbwire. If Cruz actually reaches the end, this
election will be thrilling. Today, I dreamed that I was in an area where there
was a voting booth in the U.S. For some reason, I saw the first American voter
and after he had left the voting booth, his vote was put in my hand and I saw
that his vote was for Cruz. I was extremely glad in that moment. I cannot vote
in the U.S., but I will pray that Cruz may win and become president, becoming this
way, as Romans says, a “minister of God.” We are tired of seeing U.S.
presidents and politicians, true servants of Satan, facilitating the
international persecution of Christians. It is time for an evangelical as Ted
Cruz to win and change the anti-Christian and pro-sodomy policies of the U.S.
government. I pray also that as U.S. president he may do what no U.S. president
has ever done: TO
RECOGNIZE OFFICIALLY JERUSALEM AS CAPITAL OF ISRAEL! Ted Cruz has my
support!

Ted Cruz

Ted
Cruz sucked all the oxygen out of the room today with his official declaration
of his candidacy to be America’s next president.

He
stole a march on the rest of the field, who will now be scrambling to catch up.
It was a brilliant piece of political strategy.

By
making his first campaign appearance at Liberty University, the largest
evangelical school in the world, Cruz was also sending a powerful message to
the conservative Christian base: “I’m one of you.” He was telling evangelicals
that they are his base. He openly embraced evangelicals in a way we have not
seen since the days of Ronald Reagan.

It’s
impossible for a Republican to win the nomination or the presidency without the
enthusiastic support of the evangelical base. You can ask Romney and McCain all
about that. Cruz will generate the kind of fervor and energy among the
confessing evangelicals that’s required to win. He in fact may lock up the
evangelical bloc before the other conservatives are even out of the gate.

Four
million conservative voters stayed home in 2012 and in so doing handed the
election to Barack Obama. Cruz will draw those four million conservatives to
the polls, and they will bring their friends with them. Lots of them.

Political
consultants, who have made an astonishing amount of money telling Republicans
how to lose one election after another, have got it all wrong on the precious
“independents.” Their template is that there are Republicans on the right,
Democrats on the left, with all the independents somewhere in between.

What
this template completely fails to account for is the number of independents who
are to the right of today’s mushy-middle GOP establishment. They are
independent, not because the Republican Party is too conservative for them, but
because it is not conservative enough.

To
borrow from Ronald Reagan, they didn’t leave the Republican Party, the
Republican Party left them. Ted Cruz will bring the party back to them and he
will bring them back to the party. He will win the independents who count, the
ones who can put the Republicans in the win column in 2016.

It
will be fascinating to watch the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth
among the GOP establishment should Cruz’s candidacy take flight. We will soon
find out if there is enough room for Ted Cruz in their precious “Big Tent.”
Their tent may prove to be a lot smaller than they want us to believe.

The
GOP elites have always taken evangelical voters for granted. They have
condescendingly thrown us a bone or two in the platform, then patted us on the
head and told us to go to our rooms and be seen and not heard. They have
assumed we will vote GOP because we have no other place to go.

Those
days will be over with a Cruz nomination. It will be the GOP establishment that
will have no place to go. Evangelicals will say it’s about time the elites have
to hold their noses and vote for our guy for a change.

In
its profile of Ted Cruz, the New York Times said
that GOP elites are “skeptical of and angry with (Ted) Cruz.” Sounds like he
just might be the guy we’re looking for.